Now everyone knows how harmful smoking is. There is no one who hasn't heard or knows that tobacco is carcinogenic. However, the harms of smoking do not end there; it causes all kinds of heart and lung diseases, and can lead to vascular occlusion and paralysis.
- First breath and after...
Cigarette is a mixture containing approximately 3,700 toxic substances. Most of them are carcinogenic. The most harmful ones are carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide and ammonia. These poisonous chemicals enter your bloodstream with one breath of cigarette. As a result; The moment you smoke, your body starts to be affected. Your pulse increases, you begin to breathe faster, and your blood circulation slows down. Asthma, lung inflammation, chest pains begin, and you start to have colds, flu, and colds more frequently.
Every thirteen seconds, one person dies from a smoking-related disease, and every year, 2,500,000 million people in the world die because of smoking. . The main cause of these deaths is lung cancer, the second important reason is heart diseases and other types of cancer.
There is no part of the human body that is not affected by the chemicals found in cigarettes. To list the effects of smoking on different organs in our body:
- Head and Face
If you are a smoker, your risk of developing oral cancer is high. high. Additionally, tobacco and smoke cause gum disease, tooth decay, and bad breath. In addition, chronic headaches are also common in smokers. There is a decrease in oxygen to the brain, which causes the brain vessels to narrow. This situation can lead to paralysis.
- Lungs and Bronchi
The smoke passing through your windpipe and bronchi descends to your chest. As the bronchi weaken, many diseases occur in this area. Hydrogen cyanide in cigarette smoke; It burns the lining of your bronchi, causing a decrease in lung secretions, which causes chronic coughs. Smokers have a ten times higher risk of lung cancer than non-smokers.
- Heart
The damage that smoking does to the heart. Their search is, in a word, devastating. Nicotine increases blood pressure and causes blood to clot more quickly. As the carbon monoxide in cigarettes destroys oxygen in the blood, cholesterol is deposited in the veins, which increases the risk of heart attack. In addition, due to blood circulation disorders; Paralysis, gangrene in the fingers and impotence are diseases that are very common in smokers.
- Organs
Smoking has many bad effects on the digestive system. . Depending on cigarette consumption; Acid secretion in the stomach increases, heartburn and ulcers begin. Pancreatic cancer occurs very frequently in smokers and often results in death. Carcinogenic substances contained in cigarettes are excreted in the urine, but the presence of these substances in the body causes bladder cancer. High blood pressure caused by smoking causes great damage to the kidneys.
- Results
The bad effects of smoking on health have been proven by research. According to these studies, 40% of men addicted to cigarettes die before reaching retirement age. This rate is 18% in non-smokers. The risk of uterine cancer increases in women, and smoking by pregnant women results in birth defects and stillbirths.
Despite all this, the moment you quit smoking, the body begins to repair itself. Within ten years, the body will be as if it had never smoked. However, if you wait until you have cancer or heart disease to quit smoking, your body won't have much time to repair itself. Because these diseases are highly lethal.
- Smoking-related statistics
Smoking is the number one health problem of our country.
- So, is there a problem that has more priority than smoking?
- How should we rank a social problem?
Undoubtedly, the damage it causes to human life and health is a big problem. Taken as a standard, nothing harms our country and our people as much as cigarettes.
Every year, 100,000 of our people in our country lose their lives to smoking at an early age, and this is a very serious figure. If it is not prevented, this number will reach 250,000 in the next 20 years.
If we were to state the main problems that result in death in our country;
- Terrorism, loss of thousands of people,
- Traffic Accidents cause 6-7 thousand people to die annually,
- Smoking causes 100 thousand people to die annually.
Deaths caused by smoking; traffic, terrorism, work accidents, etc. It is five times more than the total of all deaths.
Let's not forget! Smoking is an environmental factor that “can lead to death and disability, but is preventable.”
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